Yarn Along

~ Two of my favorite things are knitting and reading, and the evidence of this often shows up in my photographs. I love seeing what other people are knitting and reading as well. So, what are you knitting or crocheting right now? What are you reading? Take a photo and share it either on your blog or on Flickr. Leave a link below to share your photo with the rest of us! ~

I really meant to finish those baby pants before starting another project, but I got distracted by some pretty yarn and decided to cast on a new project with it right away. Sometimes I think that’s the best thing to do. Yarn that I go crazy over at first, left to sit on a shelf for too long, loses its appeal. I think that must be part of the whole “stash” thing. Stash yarn has a tendency to become either too precious or too boring.

So I cast on another baby gown. This time in a beautiful blue-gray colorway from Orange Flower Yarn called Vega. I really didn’t mean to buy it, but I was having a bad day and it happened to be on sale at the moment….

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We’re on the same wavelength! I bought some Orange Flower yarn last week, have all of the same books out except the bottom one, and am currently ignoring some balloon baby pants (Ze Tiny Pants pattern) because I wanted to knit up a pretty Lucy Hat with some new madelinetosh. You are WAY ahead of me on the baby knits though. I don’t have a single thing finished for this baby and EDD is Christmas Eve.

We live near THE FARM in TN where Ina May lived and taught her midwifery classes. In fact, I drove by THE FARM a few weeks ago with my daughter and granddaughter just to reminisce, and noticed that she has written more books since the days when I was having babies. I bought one of her first childbirth books back in the 70’s.

Ginnie, thanks for hosting. I’ve just returned from my neighborhood book store with a children’s book by Shirley Hughes. She is my absolute favorite children’s author and illustrator. I have all of them, I think. I read them till they were worn out to my daughter when she was little. She is in college now, but I still purchase them for a future grandchild!

I had 5 home births and went into them all a bit nervous. The last 3 births I used Peace and Calming and Valor essential oils, seemed to help a lot. Also had a couple verses written out that comforted me and/ or strengthened me and had my husband read them to me as I requested. Birth is so beautiful….I am very excited for you.

That is so true about stash yarn. I’m trying to work through what I’ve got before I buy anything new, but then, inevitably, I have a bad day and click “purchase now”. If things don’t get better around here soon, I’m going to need a new closet. : ) Seeing that pile of books on childbearing made me smile. It won’t be long now! ♥

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